MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has done more harm than good for the game of baseball.
He has successfully become baseball’s new boogeyman.
The MLB lockout is proof enough of the problems plaguing the league today.
Interest in the game is on the decline, and as the lockout drags on, baseball likely faces irreparable damage.
The fans and players all see the flaws in the way the league is run.
It’s evident now that Manfred is unfit to be the commissioner of baseball and that it’s time for new leadership.
One fan on Twitter made an interesting point about the way things work and why they need to change.
Rob Manfred has punished MLB fans more than he did the Astros.
— Korked Bats (@korkedbats) March 1, 2022
A Look Back At The Sign-Stealing Scandal
To start, we need to look back at the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal in 2017.
It’s obvious by now that everyone knows what Houston did, so this requires no introduction.
The biggest takeaway from that scandal is how Manfred failed to give the Astros a fair punishment.
He suspended Jeff Lunhow, Brandon Taubman, and A.J. Hinch for the 2020 season and took away a couple of draft picks, but still let them off with simply a slap on the wrist.
The players involved in the scandal were granted immunity and the World Series title was not stripped.
What Baseball Is Doing To Its Fans
Ironically, it’s the fans who are really being punished, and they’re being punished far more harshly than the Astros ever were.
Games have now been lost, and the season is shortened.
Baseball is at a complete standstill, and now fans of the game are unable to watch their favorite teams and players in action.
Baseball will now endure its second shortened season in the past three years, and there doesn’t appear to be a light at the end of the tunnel in the midst of the lockout.
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tjd42 says
The Astros were not punished more severely because if done an explanation would have been needed for why the Yankee’s and Red Soxs were not punished. Beltran brought the idea from the Yankees when he joined the Astros for the 2017 season and Cora took the same plan to the Red Soxs when he went there as manager in 2018.